Carrie Fisher Quotes
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
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The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
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You're not famous until you're a Pez dispenser.
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Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.
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I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
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My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
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[When Harry Met Sally] was fine, but it was a job. And I did it right after The 'Burbs.
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I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.
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I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
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I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.
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I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.
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Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.
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I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.
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We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.
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Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
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I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.
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Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.
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I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more power is out there.
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I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.
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You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!
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I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
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It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.
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I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.